Seven games in and it would seem that under Claude Puel’s tenure as manager attack is going to be the best form of defence for Leicester City.

His third consecutive victory, the first time he has achieved that feat in the Premier League, was a classic case in point.

At times City were sublime in attack, threatening to take the game away from the struggling Magpies, to the huge frustration of the massed ranks of the Toon Army, without ever actually killing them off.

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Puel’s City had their foot on the throat of Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle but never applied the fatal pressure.

The front -our of Jamie Vardy, Demaria Gray, Riyad Mahrez and Marc Albrighton were a constant menace but you always felt the City would give the Geordies a chance.

Having picked up just one point in their previous seven games there was always the prospect of frustrations boiling over amongst the Newcastle faithful.

City were opened up too easily

When their team are in the ascendency there is hardly a more vocal group of supporters in the land, but when they are unhappy there are none more quick to vent their displeasure, and City’s plan would have been to start brightly to test the Toon Army’s tolerance.

That last just four minutes as City were opened up far too easily with a simple ball into the channel for Dwight Gayle and, with Vicente Iborra struggling to make ground to cover, Joselu had acres of space to fire the hosts in front.

Joselu celebrates after he scores the opening goal (Photo by Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images)

It was a setback but with the firepower City possess at the moment it was never going to be a killer blow and City started to take control of proceedings, with that impressive, in-form front-four taking the game to Benitez’s men.

Two stunning strikes - from Mahrez in the first half and Gray, who rounded off a superb move involving Mahrez and Albrighton - gave City the lead for the third consecutive away game. But as they did at Stoke City and West Ham, City just couldn’t hold on to it, with Gayle equalising with the help of a deflection off Harry Maguire.

Slimani was again missing from squad

Puel said in the build-up to the game that he has finding it difficult to manage his plethora of strikers and record signing Islam Slimani was again missing from the squad, sparking more speculation that he could be moving on in the transfer window.

However, the fact that Puel could call on Shinji Okazaki, who put his body on the line when he came on and played a crucial role in Ayoze Perez’s inadvertent match-winning intervention with four minutes remaining, and Leonardo Ulloa, who showed some great touches to keep possession late on as City ran the clock down, bodes well for the second half of the season - and demonstrates how much strength in depth City have as an attacking force.

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City still had £25million striker Kelechi Iheanacho trying to stay warm in the freezing north eastern temperatures while sat on the bench.

And it isn’t just the strikers. Left-back Ben Chilwell bombs forward like a left winger, while even Danny Simpson, still without a goal in his three and a half year City career, was popping up at the back post to try and break his duck.

Lack of a real ruthless streak

Afterwards, Benitez claimed his side deserved something from the game, but the fact they were able to stay in it was more down to City’s lack of a real ruthless streak on the back of their attacking intent rather than their own doing.

City deserved to win, but by the same token they couldn’t have complained too much had they left two points on the Tyne and there are certainly areas to improve on defensively, especially the long-standing Achilles heel of set-pieces.

However, the travelling Blue Army will accept that frailty as long as they are watching their side produce such exciting attacking football.

Shinji Okazaki and Riyad Mahrez after Leicester City went 3-2 up against Newcastle (Photo by Chris Booth/Newcastle United via Getty Images)

Puel arrived with the reputation for playing dull, boring and negative football, but at City he is demonstrating that during his one and only season at Southampton he was simply cutting his cloth accordingly.

When your best player is a centre-half, it is difficult to serve up fast-flowing attacking football, but still he led them to eighth in the table and took them to a cup final.

On Wednesday, he returns to St Mary’s Stadium and, if City continue to perform in the same manner as their last few games, the Saints fans will get a glimpse of what they are missing out on.